Oxalic acid is two carbon dioxide molecules joined together.

I want to present to you a suite of six mycological solutions, using fungi, and these solutions are based on mycelium.

The entire pile was a green berm of life.

I first proposed, in the early 1990s, that mycelium is Earth's natural Internet.

I have thousands of electron micrographs, and when I'm staring at the mycelium,

How is that possible?

In our process, we basically use it as a glue.

And the spores are germinating, and the mycelium forms and goes underground.

This is photomicrographs from Nick Read and Patrick Hickey.

I realize that they are microfiltration membranes.

It inhales oxygen, just like we do.

These are the same bonds that hold hydrocarbons together.

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I've been involved with the U.S. Defense Department BioShield program.

I did something that nobody else had done.

like of the Agarikon mushroom.

I became interested in entomopathogenic fungi fungi that kill insects.

They can actually put this in their natural ecosystem without any processing, and it's going to improve the local soil.

They generate the humus soils across the landmasses of Earth.

2,200 acres in size, 2,000 years old.

So that white material that you see in between the bark and the wood is the mycelial felt of the fungus, and what it's doing it's actually slowly strangling the tree to death by preventing the flow of water and nutrients.

It's short.

And then a delicate dance between dinner and death the mycelium is consumed by the ants, they become mummified, and, boing, a mushroom pops out of their head.

She sews with a needle and thread.

And the most studied silk line of them all major ampullate silk.

This, uh,

fungal.

That's because if there are any harmful bacteria on the outside,

And so we wanted to think if there couldn't be a different way that bacteria live.

So those are my centromeres.

Coloured cotton.

Just like Moses called it.

We have now discovered that there is a multi directional transfer of nutrients between plants, mitigated by the mcyelium so the mycelium is the mother that is giving nutrients from alder and birch trees to hemlocks, cedars and Douglas firs.

When you look at this orb web, you're actually seeing many types of silk fibers.

Which is best, white thread or red thread?

Which is better, red thread or white thread?

Bugs.

Clostridium botulinum.

Oh, that's the storeroom for canvas and Dacron and And line.

And then you can guess what happens in anaphase Il.

So what I want to do is say to a future bug,

You did it. You did it.

To answer that, you have to look a lot closer at the spinneret region of a spider.

So I invented burlap sacks, bunker spawn and putting the mycelium using storm blown debris, you can take these burlap sacks and put them downstream from a farm that's producing E. coli, or other wastes, or a factory with chemical toxins, and it leads to habitat restoration.

And I want you to really watch closely these little white dots on the screen, because, over the five day period, what they do is extend out and through this material, using the energy that's contained in these seed husks to build this chitinous polymer matrix.